A year or so ago, I got a Charter Arms, stainless, 3" Mag Pug in 357 Mag. Neat little five-shot. almost perfect for my needs and I just like Charter's revolvers anyway. I like the the gun, but the "adjustable" rear sight is an abomination. I'm not blind to Charter's deficiencies, and their "adjustable" rear sight is just, well, sorry. Not only that, it's like having a pocketful of fish hooks, and I had even dehorned the danged thing.
The top of the blade needed to be filed so low to get it to hit to point of aim, so installing a Smith M60 adjustable rear sight was out, unless I cut off the front sight and found a way to add a taller one, which would have been way too tall.
This gun should have been made with FIXED sights, period.
I got tired enough of that rear sight that when I remembered I had a piece of 1/2" x 1/2" cold roll lying on my casting bench to corral bullets falling from moulds, I decided to borrow a couple inches off that bar and make a fixed rear sight. It's not done yet. I need to shoot it and make the final height adjustment and tweak the width of the notch - maybe. I made the blade taller and the notch narrower than the original so I had that latitude later. After I get that dialed in, I'll put a little more effort into the finish and get the right screws (3-56, by the way) and find a way to make it black.
I'll say this - it IS snag-free now!
I don't have a machine shop, so this isn't perfect. The only power tool I used was the drill press for the holes.
The top of the blade needed to be filed so low to get it to hit to point of aim, so installing a Smith M60 adjustable rear sight was out, unless I cut off the front sight and found a way to add a taller one, which would have been way too tall.
This gun should have been made with FIXED sights, period.
I got tired enough of that rear sight that when I remembered I had a piece of 1/2" x 1/2" cold roll lying on my casting bench to corral bullets falling from moulds, I decided to borrow a couple inches off that bar and make a fixed rear sight. It's not done yet. I need to shoot it and make the final height adjustment and tweak the width of the notch - maybe. I made the blade taller and the notch narrower than the original so I had that latitude later. After I get that dialed in, I'll put a little more effort into the finish and get the right screws (3-56, by the way) and find a way to make it black.
I'll say this - it IS snag-free now!
I don't have a machine shop, so this isn't perfect. The only power tool I used was the drill press for the holes.
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